Bug #692: non-ascii comment with Encoding.default_internal set raises Encoding::InvalidByteSequenceError http://redmine.ruby-lang.org/issues/show/692 Author: Stefan Lang Status: Open, Priority: Normal $ cat utf8comment.rb # encoding: utf-8 # comment containing non ascii char: รถ p Encoding.default_internal p __ENCODING__ p "foo".encoding $ ruby19 --version ruby 1.9.1 (2008-10-28 revision 19983) [x86_64-linux] $ ruby19 utf8comment.rb nil #<Encoding:UTF-8> #<Encoding:UTF-8> $ ruby19 -U utf8comment.rb ruby19: "\xC3" on US-ASCII (Encoding::InvalidByteSequenceError) ---------------------------------------- http://redmine.ruby-lang.org